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Best way to removes labels and their sticky residue of glass jars?

Im collecting them to use as drinking cups

>> No.5724594

i was doing this too and haven't really figured that out

if you're using the metal lids they came with too, sometimes they get rusty so i wouldn't recommend that

>> No.5724596

Acetone or Goo Gone

>> No.5724600

>>5724574
stay classy

jks i do that too

>> No.5724602

>>5724596
what this guy said. Goo gone is kinda strong so i'd suggest a paper towel and some acetone, personally.

>> No.5724641

>>5724574

Methylated spirits, or lighter fluid

/Thread

>> No.5724656

If you have a lawn to mow, gasoline will take it right off.

>> No.5724659

>>5724602
Goo gone is stronger than acetone? What?

Get Goo Gone; inhale orange fumes.

>> No.5724661

Soak in hot water and soap for several minutes and scrub the label off.
Completely dry.
Apply duct tape then peel off repeatedly.

>> No.5724674

>>5724659
The fumes is what I meant when I say its stronger, should have clarified but fuck, its 4 am and I'm baking 10 dozen shortbread cookies.

>> No.5724692

WD40

Shits all over metho, acetone, turps, ethanol blah blah blah
Seriously, there is nothing better

>> No.5724737

Put your hand in it.
Hold it over a bonfire.
Problem solved.

>> No.5724775

>>5724574

don't be poor

>> No.5724779

>>5724737
don't do this, the jar just ends up making your hand get really hot

>> No.5724787

Soak 'em in gasoline.

>> No.5724790

>>5724574
Dishwashing liquid and elbow grease.
Otherwise, generic solvent removers.

>> No.5724799
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5724799

>>5724574
soak in hot water
use abrasive pad to scrub it off

It's easy, really.

>> No.5724804

Stop being cheap and buy Ball jars at Walmart.

>> No.5724816

peel label off and use rubbing alcohol + a cloth

i had to do this a lot with cosplay shit

>> No.5724852

Soak in water

>> No.5724874

>>5724574

how is hot water bath and a rubbing not enough

>> No.5725178

tiger balm

>> No.5725180

>>5724804
don't spend money to be a hipster unless you're actually canning

>> No.5725205

Oil. Peel it off as much as possible, and then put a tiny bit of oil on it. (I've used canola and olive before. Baby oil might work? Idk, I've never tried it.)
Rub it in, scratch at the sticky residue, wipe off/rinse/repeat until it's all gone.

>> No.5725209

>>5724574
OP is a hipster fag

>> No.5725328

Dribble on a bit of lighter fluid, then scratch at it with a fingernail. Wash thoroughly like regular dishes after that.

>> No.5725359
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5725359

>>5725180
>Ball jars are hipster

>>5725209
>re-using glass jars is hipster

>mfw

Anyway, use a knife to get the paper off and a razor to collect the residual glue. Fingernails and hot water will get anything else.

>> No.5725362

>>5724692
This is the only right answer

>> No.5725416

>>5725180
It isn't necessarily hipster if you grew up with jars as drinking glasses and that is what you are most comfortable with.

>> No.5725419

there's this stuff, i think it's called goo-gone, it's yellow and comes in a little bottle. get it.

>> No.5725450
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>>5725362
>>5724692

This. Works on plastic too. GooGone and other fuck up plastic. WD-40 don't.

>> No.5725481

>>5725359
re-using glass jars as jars is fine. Using them for drinking cups as OP states is hipster faggotry

>> No.5725491

>>5725205
This. Soak in hot water to get most of the paper off, then rub in some olive oil and go to town with a steel scrubber and then a softer scrubber. Rinse off with soap and you're golden.

>> No.5725495

>>5725481
So having any form of unique glass to drink from is hipster?

I grew up with mason jars for tea and shit, and I like them.

>> No.5725506

>>5725495
Hipster fag

>> No.5725509

Oxy-Clean or any other oxygen cleaner mixed with the right amount of water.

Homebrewers have been using it for years for exactly this kind of thing.

>> No.5725510

>>5725506
So when did hipster lose all meaning?

People from the south have been doing that kinda shit for decades, why would that be a hipster thing?

>> No.5725511

>>5725506
Chop a 2-liter bottle in half and make kool-aid out of rainwater you collected from a dent in your car hood, Ricky.

>> No.5725512

>>5724574
Use to work as a repair technician.
We use ~90% isopropyl alcohol to remove goo from stickers.

>> No.5725513

>>5724799
this is the best way. you just need heat water

>> No.5725514

>>5724692
Opened this thread to say this.

>> No.5725524

>>5724799
I like that. soak in hot water and isaporpal or rubbing alcohol don't worry about drinking it. you will only do that once (snowed in. in college seemed wise at the time it wasn't. your body cannot metabolize that)but yeah scots brite hot water alcohol soak should come right off

>> No.5725587

>>5724574
inb4 someone calls you a poorfag and tells you to buy smartwater or whatever the fuck every time you're thirsty

>> No.5725698

>>5725416
I grew up drinking out of old spaghetti sauce jars all the time. OP is an alright guy for wanting this. Also, a dark and stormy just feels right when in a 12 oz jar.

>> No.5725715

>>5725511
Fuck off conky

>> No.5725724

>>5724574
>hot water
>sticky residue comes off eventually, picks up enough dust not to be sticky

>> No.5725730

Zyklon B

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5725743

>>5724574
Believe it or not OP the best way is urea, just soak all your bottles in urea and the adhesive will separate from the glass. One benefit of using this method is that it is all natural and there are no harmful chemicals on your drink ware.

>> No.5725886

>>5724574
use butane, it'll make the glue dissolve.

>> No.5725900

I use rubbing alcohol

>>5725524
>don't worry about drinking it. you will only do that once (snowed in. in college seemed wise at the time it wasn't. your body cannot metabolize that)
Glad i never did this, wouldn't mind more details of how it went.

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>>5725510
It's hipster to do anything which the people in your immediate surrounding environment are not also already doing.

You didn't know that?

>> No.5725916

>>5724692
100%

NOTHING WORKS BETTER

>> No.5726516

>>5725506
epic meme call everything you don't like hipster

>> No.5726520

>250 posts and no one has mentioned peanut butter
peanut butter

>> No.5726696

This has already been answered to death, and any orangey solvent with "goo" in the name will probably work fine, but I have to throw in a word for mineral spirits.

The stuff will dissolve and disarm gooey adhesives when many other solvents will just thin them into a sticky liquid. Mineral spirits leaves a residue of it's own, but it cleans off easily. It's also a lot safer for plastics and synthetic fabric than, say, acetone.

>> No.5726707

Isn't WD40, acetone and everything else posted ITT toxic for your body? Why would you want to store food with these chemicals?

>> No.5726712

>>5726707
>Why would you want to store food with these chemicals?

you don't. You clean off the solvent before using the container. Also, you are using it on the label on the OUTSIDE of the container, not the inside.

Also most of this stuff is not particularly hazardous. the "goo" products are made with orange oil. Acetone is actually found in the human body, and it evaporates so fast that it doesn't leave an appreciable residue.

>> No.5726715

>>5726707
Only if you drink it.
Dose makes the poison and all that.

These aren't heavy metals.